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Pegasus
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CommercialUnited StatesFully autonomous

Amazon (Amazon Robotics) · working robot

Pegasus

Built on the Hercules drive, Pegasus carries one parcel on a small conveyor and tips it down a chute in the floor that leads to the right delivery route.

Price
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Height
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Weight
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Payload
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Speed
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Battery
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Why it matters

Amazon's first drive robot used in sortation buildings, sorting single parcels instead of moving pods.

Real-world use

Amazon said 800 Pegasus units were deployed by June 2019 and had cut mis-sorted packages by half.

Timeline

First shown
2019-06-05
Released
2018
Unveiled at Amazon re:MARS, Las Vegas

Maker

Amazon (Amazon Robotics)Company · founded 2003 (as Kiva Systems) · Seattle, Washington, United States

Wholly owned by Amazon

Public attention

How much public attention Pegasus gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
  • about 800 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It carries parcels to the right floor chute on its own, directed by warehouse software.
Actuators & motors
Puck-shaped drive unit based on the Hercules drive, with a mini conveyor belt on top
Sensors & vision
Navigates a field of floor markers; fully sensored to work around people, robots and obstructions
AI & software
Routes each parcel along the most efficient path and drops it through floor chutes by destination

Lineage

Every Amazon Robotics machine in order.

  1. HerculesHercules2017Commercial
  2. Amazon ScoutAmazon Scout2019Discontinued
  3. PegasusPegasus2019Commercial
  4. Xanthus (X-bot)Xanthus (X-bot)2019Commercial
  5. AstroAstro2021Commercial
  6. ProteusProteus2022Commercial
  7. TitanTitan2023Commercial

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Watch Pegasus

Video: Amazon News on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Built
800 units deployed by June 2019 (Amazon)
Sold or delivered
not sold (Amazon internal)
Customers and pilots
Amazon sortation centres

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Amazon unveils Pegasus and Xanthus

    Amazon showed its Pegasus parcel-sorting robot, with 800 already deployed, and the redesigned Xanthus drive at re:MARS.

    DC Velocity

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

DC Velocity Amazon unveils Xanthus and Pegasus fulfillment robots Amazon Science Amazon Robotics autonomous drive units: Hercules, Pegasus, Xanthus aboutamazon.com Pegasus: how it is operated

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